The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

“A perfect book”—the film version won Maggie Smith an Academy award—about a controversial teacher and her female students in the years before World War II ( Chicago Tribune ). “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan fo